Solve Outlook Not Responding 2010 or 2013 Issue: How to Fix

In this modern era, Microsoft Outlook is one of the most powerful applications that helps user to complete all tasks on time. It is used by millions of people all around the globe to manage their important emails, calendar, notes, tasks, journals, appointments, etc. Most of the users make use of this program to send or receive emails, manage emails in effective manner. However, while using Outlook you find that Outlook not responding in 2010 or 2013. It is really a very problematic situation which prevents users to perform any further tasks. 

In such situation users display screen become frozen and sometimes pop ups annoying error messages that terminates the entire process. There are number of reasons that are responsible for appearance of “Outlook not responding” error. Some of the common reasons and its resolution for the problem are mentioned below:

• Outlook application is in use by some other process
• You have not run the latest update
• Some other programs might be conflicting with Outlook
• Your mailbox has reached or about to reach PST size limit
• PST files has becomes corrupt or damaged
• May be your user profile has been damaged

For the resolution of above mentioned scenario, step by step guide as mentioned below will help you to easily get rid out of the problem:

• At first make sure your Outlook application is not in use by any other process
• Next, install the latest updates for proper Outlook functioning
• You need to investigate that your security program is updated or not conflicting with Outlook application
• If problem is caused due to damaged profile then create new

If all the aforementioned steps fail to solve the problem then Outlook not responding problem in Outlook 2010 or 2013 is caused due to the corrupted or damaged PST file. Such problem also arises because of the oversized PST issues. To fix such problems Microsoft offers an inbuilt application popularly known as Inbox repair tool. It is a freeware program that helps users to repair corrupted PST file in many of the situation. But in number of situation this program fails to help Outlook users due to its certain limitations. It only repairs the PST files under 2GB, it delete the files which it gets difficult to repair during the process.

So, it is suggested to avoid use of Inbox repair tool or Scanpst.exe to avoid any data loss scenario. To get rid out of all such issues make use of Stellar Outlook PST Repair Tool, it is paid program but helps you to fix Outlook not responding Outlook 2010 problems without any hassle. It makes use of advance and sophisticated technique to repair damages PST files from all Outlook versions.

User Guide to Restore Corrupted and Damaged PST Files

Step 1: At fist, download and install Stellar Outlook PST repair tool. Now, select the PST file that you need to repair.

Step 2: After selecting PST file, click on Start button for further process

Step 3: In this step, you will be able to preview of list of recoverable mail folders. You need to select for the files you want to repair.

Step 4: After that you need to click on “Save Recovered File” button and destination where you want to restore recoverable files. 

Step 5: In final Step, pop up box on display screen will tell you about the location of recovered items.